Construction Updates
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- Bermondsey Road
- Birchmount Road
- Black Creek Drive
- Brentcliffe Road
- Caledonia Road
- Chaplin Crescent
- Don Mills Road
- Donlea Drive/Hanna Road
- Don Valley Parkway (DVP)
- Dufferin Street
- Ferrand Drive
- Ionview Road
- Keele Street
- Kennedy Road
- Laird Drive
- Leslie Street
- Lebovic Avenue
- Little Blvd.
- Mount Pleasant Road
- Oakwood Avenue
- Petman Avenue
- Pharmacy Avenue
- Victoria Park Avenue
- Warden Avenue
- Weston Road
- Wynford Drive
- Yonge Street
Overnight Lane Reduction to a Single Lane between Brentcliffe Road and Leslie Street, Starting late August 2014
What/Where: Crews will be working on advanced utility construction and relocation between Brentcliffe Road and Leslie Street. Read more »
Short Term Lane Closures along Eglinton Avenue West for Monitoring Equipment Installation Black Creek Drive -Yonge Street Summer 2014 - Summer 2015
What work is starting?
What: Crews will be installing ground movement monitoring equipment.
Why: Monitoring equipment will provide information on the ground conditions during excavation and tunnelling activities to the construction team. Read more »
Advanced Utility Work for Laird West Headwall Construction
The Eglinton Crosstown is a 19-kilometre light rail transit (LRT) line that will run along Eglinton Avenue through the heart of Toronto, with an underground central section. The line will connect Mount Dennis in the west to Kennedy Road in the east, and the new service will be up to 60% faster than the bus service today.
What: Crews will be working on advanced utility construction and relocation, just to the east of the intersection of Eglinton Avenue East and Sutherland Drive. Read more »
Cross Passage Headwall Construction near Duncannon Drive - Stage 1
What we are building
What: A cross passage is a tunnel cut between two other parallel tunnels required for maintenance or emergency purposes. Crews will be building one headwall for the future cross-passage required for future maintenance of the tunnels. Read more »
Continuation of Quality Testing of Headwall at Oakwood
The Eglinton Crosstown is a transit project that will provide rapid and reliable service across Eglinton Avenue including an underground central section and will be up to 60% faster than bus service today.
What: Crews will perform some core holes for quality testing at the Oakwood headwall locations.
Where: The work zone will be on the north east side of Eglinton Avenue West and Oakwood Avenue.
When: Starting as early as July 21, 2014 for two to three weeks, crews will perform some holes for quality testing. Read more »
Watermain Work at Bayview and Eglinton Avenues Starting the Week of July 21, 2014
What: Crews will be working on watermain construction on the east side of the intersection of Bayview Avenue and Eglinton Avenue East. Read more »
Gas Line Relocation for Headwall Construction of Bayview Station Starting the Week of July 21, 2014
What work is starting?
What: Enbridge will be relocating gas lines for the construction of the Crosstown tunnel and future Bayview Station. Read more »
Work Zones to be shifted to the South Side of Eglinton at Chaplin
What is the purpose of the construction work at Chaplin?
Station headwalls create the frame for future underground stations, and are required to be in place prior to the arrival of tunnel boring machines at each of the station locations along the Eglinton Crosstown route. Construction of the headwalls requires a grout plant to be established nearby to pump a form of concrete, otherwise known as “grout”, to the station headwall location. Read more »
Update: Cross Passage Headwall Construction near Vesta Drive - Stage 1
What we are building
What: A cross passage is a tunnel cut between two other parallel tunnels for maintenance or emergency purposes. Crews will be building one headwall for the future cross-passage required for future maintenance of the tunnels. Read more »
Allen Road Area – Sidewalk Detours
From Monday, July 21, 2014 onwards, pedestrian access to Eglinton West Station will be re-routed to facilitate the construction of the extraction shaft in the vicinity of the southbound Allen Road Ramp.
